Art + Culture Swizz Beatz and Kehinde Wiley Are Inspiring Tomorrow’s Artists Nov. 21, 2019 The two artists join forces for a Creative Minds Talk during Art Basel Miami Beach in support of Black Rock, the artist-in-residency program launched by Wiley in Senegal. »
Art + Culture Maripol and Kelly Cutrone on Andy Warhol’s ’15 Minutes’ Prediction Nov. 19, 2019 "Artists see the future," says Maripol, the polaroid photographer famous for capturing '80s New York club culture. "The good ones," she clarifies, seated next to PR icon Kelly Cutrone at Polaroid's Soho Pop-Up Lab where they're talking about Maripol's work and legacy. »
Art + Culture Maripol, godmother of instant photography, on the serendipitous magic of Polaroids Nov. 19, 2019 Late nights at the Mudd Club, stolen motorcycles, and evading indecent exposure charges—the artist on the gritty glamour of late ’70s New York and being a perennial nonconformist. »
Art + Culture The Yellow Wallpaper is an exhibition of new portraits by American artist Kehinde Wiley Nov. 19, 2019 The Yellow Wallpaper is an exhibition of new portraits by American artist Kehinde Wiley (b.1977, Los Angeles) opening at The William Morris Gallery in February 2020. This will be the first solo exhibition of new work shown by Wiley at a public institution in the UK and also the first to feature exclusively female portraits. »
Art + Culture Kehinde Wiley and Jeremy O. Harris’s Meeting of the Minds Nov. 19, 2019 The Yale alums have made provocative incursions into Times Square, where Wiley’s take on Civil War iconography chimes with Harris’s “Slave Play.” »
Art + Culture Swizz Beatz & Kehinde Wiley To Lead Creative Minds Talks Conversation During Art Basel Miami Beach Nov. 19, 2019 Taking place at Miami’s New World Center during Art Basel Miami Beach, the conversation will surely be one of its most memorable and compelling, bringing together two industry leaders to discuss important topics on a national and even on a global scale. »
Art + Culture Brooklyn Academy of Music opens its first gallery for visual art Nov. 13, 2019 The exhibition space, named after trustee and art collector Beth Rudin DeWoody, launches during annual New Wave Festival with works by Glenn Kaino »
Art + Culture MARIPOL REVIVES DOWNTOWN 81, HER LOVE LETTER TO BASQUIAT AND HIS NEW YORK CITY Nov. 13, 2019 Maripol told me, choking back tears. “It’s like grabbing a little diamond.” Downtown 81 is a fairytale homage to the New York that was, and never again will be—but more importantly, to the friendships that blossom amidst the concrete. »
Art + Culture Studio Drift reduces plastic bags into blocks for Materialism installation Oct. 22, 2019 Amsterdam-based Studio Drift has created an installation of 3,000 blue blocks, which each represent the plastic used to make an individual supermarket bag, at the Van Abbemuseum for Dutch Design Week. »
Art + Culture A Look Inside the Homes of Dries Van Noten, Rick Owens and More Oct. 18, 2019 The photographer François Halard’s new book documents the private spaces of some of the world’s most influential creative forces. »
Art + Culture Marco Brambilla Transforms Iconic Duchamp Painting for a Public Installation in Paris Oct. 18, 2019
Art + Culture Wes Lang Is “Taking off for Other Dimensions” in New Copenhagen Exhibition Oct. 7, 2019 Acclaimed LA-based visual artist Wes Lang is currently displaying a new body of work at Copenhagen’s Eighteen Gallery. Spearheading a collagist approach, Lang unveils character-packed paintings for his fifth solo show with the Danish dealer titled “Taking Off For Other Dimensions.” »
Art + Culture Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe Present Alternate Environments in Immersive London Installation Oct. 7, 2019
Art + Culture Frieze London: Jonah Freeman + Justin Lowe’s Colony Sound Exhibition Oct. 7, 2019 Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe have created an 11-room immersive installation (on now through 19 October) that takes up both floors of the gallery. The invite promised a multi-sensory experience of COLONY SOUND, with Ghetto Gastro responsible for “finesse.” »
Art + Culture Kehinde Wiley Subverts Confederate Monuments with First Public Sculpture in Times Square Oct. 7, 2019 An equestrian statue portraying a young Black man wearing Nikes. »
